Efrat Klipshtein - September-October 2025

Photographer: Lena Gomon

My artistic practice spans installations, performances, and two-dimensional works. The materials I work with are diverse and include: from everyday materials ; electrical cables, brooms, aluminum foil, plasticine, paper clips to botanical materials, wood sculptures and glass castings. My work ranges from the formal formulation of shapeless physical spaces to the transformation of everyday objects, into poetic realms. The transformation that the objects undergo in my works distances them from the original form but preserves their identity. much like the transformations that heroes of journeys undergo in literary epics who set out but never return home the same person they left. In recent years, my work has traced the elements of the road; the lines of the routes, the depressions and cracks in the road, these elements that we are blind to, or simply prefer to avoid or stay away from. These take on form and substance in my work and become measurements of the desire for a destination. My work expresses the attempt to stabilize and preserve the element of movement already contained in the stopping, in memory and failure; the persistent preoccupation with the elements of the road blurs the destination until it is absorbed. I believe that there is no destination, there is only the material - a road, and the road grows bigger as its crevices accumulate.

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